A terrible tragedy occurred on December 7‚ 1941‚ Japanese planes pounced on a naval base in Hawaii near Pearl Harbor. The attack lasted only two hours‚ but the results were tragic. Huge battleships were at the bottom of the ocean‚ more than 2‚000 American soldiers dead‚ and 1‚000 wounded soldiers. The U.S didn’t sit on their ass‚ they declared war on Japan for their unexpected barrage. FDR was the U.S current president and he was hiding an atomic bomb that could ruin Japan and it was going to be
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A scathing attack on all levels of Athenian society and its political leaders or just light- hearted fun? What is your opinion of “The Knights”? The knights is a scathing attack on Athenian society. Aristophanes makes the play this way through the constant attacks on the Pathlagonian‚ the many negative comments on the people and how he uses comedic techniques to attack Athenian society. Although the play is a heavy attack on Athenian society‚ Aristophanes does also include comedic value in some
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bombs was at the most 20‚000 and some estimates put the number of lives saved lower at maybe hundreds or tens. This is because the Japanese military in August 1945 was very weak due to the fact it had a minimal air force reduced to using kamikaze attacks to destroy US ships and an army which would use suicide ‘bonsai’ tactics against ground troops. Though many Americans were killed as a result of the suicide tactics‚ it showed the desperation of the Japanese army in
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Attack on Pearl Harbor "December 17‚ 1941‚ a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan." - Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt At 7:53 AM‚ the aerial onslaught began with the second wave perpetuated at 8:55. A radiogram was sent from the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: "Airraid on Pearl Harbor. This is no drill." Within two hours‚ the carnage had concluded leaving 2‚403 people dead
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James Downing was part of the navy unit on pearl harbor. He was only 28 at the time and it was his 9th year in the navy. James remarked “I was doing my daily job‚ to find out that we were under attack.” James Downing was a gunner’s 1st mate and postmaster. He was eating breakfast with a couple other service men. His wife‚ Morena‚ was cooking the breakfast. They were fine until they heard a few explosions go off. “Then an anti-aircraft shell
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A study by the FBI confirmed that most of these shooters don’t just one day “snap”. Elliot Rodger planned out his attack for a whole year before he committed it and he had a 137 page manifesto left behind for the world to see. This behavior isn’t his alone‚ it’s mirrored in other shooters. Most of these people know they are going to die‚ and so they plan out every part of it like a presentation. Their main goal isn’t the killings‚ but the message it sends and the aftermath displayed on TV. It’s calculated
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Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7‚ 1941 by the Japanese just before 8am. The attack lasted a total of two hours. A total of 2467 lives were lost and a little over 1200 were wounded during this terrible surprise attack. The attack at Pearl Harbor had destroyed Americas sense of security because it helped expose some of our defensive weaknesses that we thought we never had. The attack brought our country together like never before because all of the Americans realized how much people it took
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most carefully planned attack on a nation at peace. This attack was the final straw for the United States. There were many countries that desperately wanted and/or needed the U.S. to enter World War II. Even so‚ the U.S. tried their hardest to remain neutral and avoid foreign affairs. However‚ an attack on a peaceful nation’s home front is just too much to overlook. Events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor actually began around a century before the actual attack. In 1853‚ the American Commodore
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actually discourage a Japanese attack (At Dawn We Slept 37) Many Americans thought that Hawaii was an invincible fortress and was too well defended for the Japanese to attack. (At Dawn We Slept 96-97) The question was “will the Japanese attack?” instead of “can they attack?”. It was thought that the Japanese would attack only after declaring war‚ which meant there would be time to mobilize the American fleet. (At Dawn We Slept 43) It was also thought that if a Japanese attack did occur‚ then the targets
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Pearl Harbour The attack on Pearl Harbour began on the morning of the 7th of December‚ 1941. It was set to be a surprise military attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the naval base of the United States of America in Hawaii’s Pearl Harbour. The attack ended with the United States joining World War II. A war between the United States of America and Japan had become a possibility since the 1920’s with both countries having a plan if one should happen. The possibility grew massively when Japan
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